Word: plante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United Automobile Workers called 7,500 tool and die makers, plus some plant maintenance men, on strike last month to get: 1) the union's first separate agreement for those key workers; 2) general wage hikes for them, so scaled as to level out differentials between G. M. plants; and 3) some form of exclusive recognition to help C. I. O. finish off what was left of Homer Martin's A. F. of L.-affiliated U. A. W. Messrs. Knudsen and Reuther in separate memoranda disclosed that G. M. had: consented to deal with its striking craftsmen apart...
...Recognition in eleven other plants is subject to the outcome of employe elections, which G. M. has petitioned NLRB to hold. If NLRB in the G. M. elections follows a precedent laid down last week for employe voting in Chrysler and Briggs (bodies), Homer Martin's union may yet get a foothold. For, instead of holding the elections on a company-wide basis, as C. I. O. asked, the Labor Board called for voting plant-by-plant. General Motors, Chrysler and others thus would have to deal with C. I. O. in some shops...
...uneasy. The man who upped Chevrolet production from 76,000 to 480,000 cars in two seasons (1922-23), then caught and passed Ford, had suffered four full weeks from an ingenious new C. I. O. strike technique. On July 5, when C. I. O. began striking eleven key plants where 1940 models' jigs, dies and tools are built, General Motors had a week's start on Chrysler, which had been set back two weeks by another C. I. O. strike. Now General Motors was a week behind Chrysler, which planned to open its Plymouth plant August...
...spreading muddle a twelfth G. M. plant was struck, making a total of 7,500 key workers out. And a significant, warlike new development came: A. F. of L. sent 30 experienced building trades organizers into Michigan to make a heavily financed assault on U. A. W. of C. I. O. They will work with A. F. of L.-convert Homer Martin, the youthful ex-preacher, who as National A. A. U. hop-skip-jump champion (in 1924 and 1925) was known as "The Leaping Parson from Leeds" (Kansas). This explained to observers Mr. Martin's nonchalance...
This week's chapter of the strike began with violence as 3,000 pickets battled 450 police and 30 firemen at the Fisher Body plant in Cleveland. As 35 people were carted to hospitals, Strikeleader Joseph Bagano said: "We will continue to throw stones, turn over cars and resist these scabs until they get religion and stay home where they belong...